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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

Golf carts are no longer just for cruising the country club. Thanks to US golf cart maker E-Z-GO , which partnered with National Calendar Day to help establish National Golf Cart Day in celebration of the brand’s 70th anniversary, we can now all celebrate these pint-sized car replacements with their own holiday.

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More Tools (i.e. toys.)

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

tools) Most of my battery management research has been done at work using the equipment there, so I decided to bring the experiments home and analyze them with a cheap analog oscilloscope ($390 from Frys). You know what that means: Time to buy toys! (er. I also ran out to Harbor Freight and got a 2.25 ton floor jack.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

Setec Powerr

Lithium iron phosphate batteries are green, non-toxic, non-polluting, raw materials from a wide range of sources, and cheap. Light electric vehicles: electric bicycles, golf carts, electric wheelchairs, etc. Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a large capacity. Lithium iron phosphate battery has no memory effect. Scope of use.

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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

Then some of the early golf-cart-esque electric LSVs that sold in California during the mid-to-late 2000s began showing up in the Pick-n-Pulls of the Golden State. Good replacement batteries for these cars aren't cheap. I've been documenting electric cars in junkyards for about a decade.

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A closer look at humidity control methods for EV electronics

Charged EVs

Potting should only be a last resort, and it only tends to make sense in very cost-sensitive devices that aren’t considered worth repairing (such as a golf-cart motor controller, which is where I’ve seen it used the most in the EV field).

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Affordable Winter Trips in the Caribbean

Baua Electric

Golf cart rentals are another popular way to explore the peninsula ($55 a day from Barefoot Services ). According to Dollar Flight Club , a membership service offering cheap airfares, San Juan is one of the best deals in the region, with round-trip flights starting at $138 from Atlanta. San Juan, P.R.

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Here are the coolest e-bikes and more we saw at Micromobility America 2024

Baua Electric

This kit is not cheap, priced at US $1,246 without a battery or US $1,599 with a battery. Now the company is demonstrating off a new platform called Revii for larger micromobility vehicles (sometimes referred to as “minimobility”) including golf carts, Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs) and other Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs).

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